PDP-BJP govt pushed state into turmoil, uncertainty, says Omar

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, July 11

National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday alleged that the former alliance between PDP and BJP — the two parties which ruled the state for three years before their coalition collapsed last month — pushed the state into turmoil and uncertainty.

Omar, who chaired the NC legislative party meeting at the party head office here, said the former ruling alliance left the state “brutalised and stoked unprecedented alienation especially among the youth”.

“The PDP-BJP alliance has pushed J&K into the throes of turmoil and uncertainty and the rank opportunism that formed the basis of their politics has not only alienated the people but also created chasms between the three regions of the state,” Omar said at the meeting which was attended by his party’s legislators and councillors.

“We witnessed rampant persecution, injustice and widespread corruption while this alliance was at the helm of power,” Omar said.

He alleged that the “shamelessness and lack of perspective is evidenced by how Mehbooba, in a scripted TV interview to a private channel from Delhi, had all the time to remember the imaginary failures of her predecessors but had no words of sympathy for people”.

Begum Akbar Jahan remembered

The NC on Wednesday observed the 18th death anniversary of Begum Akbar Jahan, one of its senior leader and wife of the party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. The commemoration function was held at Naseem Bagh in Srinagar.